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Smash features an ensemble cast, with 13 regular cast members over the course of two seasons. The show is about the creation of Broadway musicals. The first season revolves around the creation of Bombshell , a musical about the life of Marilyn Monroe .
Pack of Lies is a 1983 play by English writer Hugh Whitemore, itself adapted from his Act of Betrayal, an episode of the BBC anthology series Play of the Month transmitted in 1971. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Based on a true story, the plot centres on Bob and Barbara Jackson (in real life Bill and Ruth Search) and their teenage daughter Julie (in real life Gay ...
It opened off-Broadway in 1987 and on-Broadway on April 27, 1989, where it ran for 60 performances. It received six nominations at the 43rd Tony Awards , including Best Musical, but won none. The story revolves around a shy teenager, Eleanor, who creates a fantasy world involving science fiction characters in her comic book collection.
West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast) is the 1957 recording of a Broadway production of the musical West Side Story. Recorded 3 days after the show opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, the recording was released in October 1957 in both mono and stereo formats. In 1962, the album reached #5 on Billboard's Pop Album chart.
The original Broadway cast album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008. Selections from the show were broadcast in 1979 on Musical Comedy Tonight hosted by Sylvia Fine , with songs performed by Carol Burnett , Richard Chamberlain , Sandy Duncan , and Bernadette Peters .
The play, starring Jack Lemmon in the role of Leo Davis, was revived on Broadway for a short run of 16 performances in 1953. RKO Pictures purchased the film rights for a then-record $225,000 and used it as the basis for the film of the same title as a vehicle for the Marx Brothers. [2]
The cast members of Drood do not specifically play Dickens's characters; rather, they are music hall players performing as Dickens's characters. This device allowed for the incorporation of light comedy, which was not present in the original novel, and several musical numbers unrelated to the original story.
Author of A Few Good Men Aaron Sorkin. Private William Santiago, a United States Marine at the United States Navy's Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, on the south shore of the island of Cuba is a weak Marine who has a hard time physically keeping up and gets along poorly with his fellow Marines and has gone outside the chain of command to the Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS) to request a ...